- Bweehhh! Nobody laughs at my jokes anymore! I juggled, do tricks, I humiliated myself, but why won't anybody laugh!
- Maybe you're trying too hard? Jokes kind of fall flat if you're too serious
- Too hard?! Can one try too hard to bring joy into this miserable world?! No! There is a reason! I'm not seeing it but there are laws and rules to comedy! The fundamental truths to humor!
- O' Patience grant me endurance...
- Hey hey... why does a fool falling down the stairs is funny while a hero falling in the battle is a tragedy?
- Because one actually died?
- Irrelevant! The distinction lies not in the fall, but in the expectation of the fall! Tragedy is when the world betrays our hopes! Comedy is when the world betrays our assumptions
- That sort of makes sense
- But then! Why do we laugh at absurdity?! A crab wielding a knife? A horse attending mass! House lokust displaying compassion!
- That last one's impossible
- Exactly! Humor flourishes where possibility and impossibility engage in forbidden tomfoolery! Laughter is the sound of reason briefly surrendering to madness! A tiny death of reason!
- You might be reading too deep into this...
- Tragedy reveals the cruelty of existence! Comedy reveals its stupidity! I am a philosopher! A prophet! A living testament to authority's imperfections!
- Comedy gives meaning to meaninglessness! It makes tragedy bearable! It is the art of finding joy in a world that promises none! But there is a paradox! To explain a joke is to kill it! Therefore to master comedy one must understand nothing
- I think you already mastered that part
- I HATE YOU! Wait... that was kind of funny
